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[Orange123]

I'm looking to buy this CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor. However, what is the actual bus speed? Like I have a mobo that is 1000mhz.

Will this still work?

Thanks

Orange 🙂

 

[Jeff7181]

Yes, it will work. All the new Socket 939 chips have a 1000 MHz HT bus speed.

 

[Orange123]

Ok thank you

 

[theMan]

also, you might see some vendors saying it has a 2000mhz bus. this is just marketing, you know, bigger numbers. they say 2000mhz becuase there is 16bits upstream at 1000mhz and 16bits downstream at 1000mhz.

 

[ixelion]

The FSB support on your mobo is not the same as A64's hypertransport bus. As long as the socket types match it should work.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: ixelion
The FSB support on your mobo is not the same as A64's hypertransport bus. As long as the socket types match it should work.

there is no FSB its HT which 200Mhz DDR400, and HTT which is set to 1000Mhz 😉

 

[MobiusPizza]

I still have no idea what HT and HTT are
Only thing I know they run at DDR 400Mhz and 1000Mhz respectively
I do know what hyper transport is.
But HTT? Hyper Transport T... T...... Tough

 

[imported_Kensai]

Hyper Transport is the name of the link connecting the northbridge/southbridge's link with the CPU.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
I still have no idea what HT and HTT are
Only thing I know they run at DDR 400Mhz and 1000Mhz respectively
I do know what hyper transport is.
But HTT? Hyper Transport T... T...... Tough

I'm pretty sure it's HyperTransport Tunnel... referring to the bus that connects the CPU to the motherboard chipset.

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Plain old HyperTransport is the technology behind the HTT bus. A 200 MHz "reference speed" is used, and then multiplied to get the HTT bus speed. I think, unlike the way Intel's 800 MHz FSB is a quad pumped 200 MHz bus, making it effectively 800 MHz... the HTT bus is actually running at 1000 MHz because it uses a multiplier just like to get the CPU core speed.